Category: Report
Institutional Legacies, Union Power, and Organizational Restructuring in Healthcare
by John Kallas, Rosemary Batt and Eileen Appelbaum , 01/24/2019
A central problem in contemporary employment relations has been the fragmentation of work and dismantling of internal employment systems that historically provided stable jobs and income security. This process is occurring in hospital systems as they attempt to cut costs and improve care quality by shifting services out of costly hospitals and into a wide […]
Organizational Restructuring in U.S. Healthcare Systems
Implications for Jobs, Wages, and Inequality
by Eileen Appelbaum and Rosemary Batt , 09/30/2017
The healthcare sector is one of the most important sources of jobs in the economy. Healthcare spending reached $3.2 trillion in 2015 or 17.8 percent of GDP and accounted for 12.8 percent of private sector jobs. It was the only industry that consistently added jobs during the Great Recession. In 2016, this sector added 381,000 […]